Gold Spike Village was incorporated in 1984 by its developer, Coker Ewing.  A total of 194 single family homes have been built in this fully built-out association. Front yard maintenance is included in the monthly dues.  The annual meeting is the second Wednesday in November at 7:30 PM in the Gold River Community Center.  The Gold Spike Board of Directors are elected for a two year term and have monthly meetings held on the fourth Thursday of the month, 7:00 PM, at the Gold River Community Center. Members of this village may search or download their documents by clicking here. History: Gold Spike Village commemorates the building of the first transcontinental railroad.  On January 8, 1863, the Central Pacific Railroad broke ground in Sacramento and began working eastward over the Sierra Nevada.  The Central Pacific, headed by the Big Four--Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins, and Collis P. Huntington--met up with the Union Pacific Railroad building west from Omaha on May 10, 1869.  The last, golden, spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, celebrating the road's completion. Although the railroad was built after the feverish early days of the gold rush, gold and the mining regions continued to be important factors in California and the nation's economy.  President Lincoln authorized the transcontinental railroad in part as a Civil War measure to bond California and its gold to the Union.  The gold which had created the state in 1850 helped keep it part of the United States in the 1860s. The Central Pacific found another source of riches in the government subsidy bonds and land grants the railroad earned for each mile of track laid.  But awesome engineering, supply, and labor problems lay before the CP.  For more than four years, the railroad clawed its way up the 7,000 foot granite slope of the Sierra.  Workers hired on only to desert after gaining free passage to the Mother Lode gold fields.  Finally, the CP turned to Chinese laborers; eventually employing over 10,000. As workers pushed the roadbed over fill and trestle and through tunnel and cut, the railroad set up temporary work camps at the end of the tracks.  Some of the camps survived to become established cities; others lived for a few days or weeks before vanishing forever.  From Sacramento to the Nevada border, each camp had its own name refering to geographical features, now- forgotten events, or nostalgic remembrances of home.  The streets of Gold Spike Village recall these camps built during the Central Pacific's epic struggle to build the first transcontinental railroad.